True Democrat just means neoliberal corporatist. They only care about money and the appearance of giving a shit about people.

Corporations win. Again. They will suck every minute and cent from you until you are a broken husk.

At this point the idiots have won. Brain dead citizens are rooting for the authoritarian government to put the heels to everyone because it will hurt somebody they don’t agree with or like.

Idiots ruled by rich fascist idiots.

If your religion doesn’t allow for abortions, don’t get an abortion or use any related medications. Leave everyone else that is not part of your faith out of your religious issues.

Stop ruining everything for the whole country.

https://youtu.be/GATLC44Nr28

Here is just Teslas Supercharger network. Noticed that it’s much smaller and only really works for Teslas.

Here is the map showing which of these locations allow for non-Tesla partners electric vehicle charging. There are less sites that I allow you to charge a non-Tesla vehicle.

And here is the map for others that are not partners and not part of Tesla supercharger network. There are even fewer sites that allow other cars to use the supercharger network.

So all of this is great if you own a Tesla, but if you don’t, there’s competing standards and EV Charging stations may not be compatible with your car.

Here is a map of how many level three fast chargers are available in each US state.

Let’s use Texas as an example here. There are 243 fast chargers in an area of 695,662km². That’s 1 charger for every 2862 km2. Not great coverage.

That’s not nearly so helpful so let’s take a look at the distribution with each state:

You can see that most of these EV stations are located around larger metropolitan areas. If you live outside of those areas, electric cars are not really, very useful. That graphic, even though this is from 2022 that the metric is there a three times more gas stations, per capita than there are chargers.

As far as I know, there are no incentives for people to add solar to the grid. In fact, many power companies are making it more difficult for people to do exactly that.

And yes, I understand. My argument is very basic and outdated and I don’t own an EV. I have no idea what the actual charge are for modern cars.

I will tell you that even 20 minutes for an American is unacceptable. The availability of fast chargers in the US is also pretty bad. I understand it’s been getting better, but it really varies what states you live in and they build out their local infrastructure.

Here’s what it actually takes to charge car in the US and popular 2025 models noticed that none of them are 10 to 80% percent in 40 minutes. Considering the most charging infrastructure in the US is level one a.k.a. slow charge. There’s no way you’re getting a fast charge if it’s not available in your area or too expensive.

Level 2 charging operates at a higher rate than Level 1. In residential applications, this type of charging requires a 240-volt outlet

With this type of charging, you can charge an electric vehicle to 80% from empty in 4-10 hours. With a PHEV, Level 2 charging can take up to 2 hours.

No where near 20- 40 minutes.

Avg Charge time in US: https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/ev-charging-time

Well, I agree with you that just not gonna happen because the two parties are fighting each other at every level of the government, including local state governments.

Politicians from both parties are paid by their corporate interest to keep everything the same and continue selling and high energy prices.

The US is a corporate controlled oligarchy with a n orange wannabe dictator.

They have one government setting the policy instead of 2 parties in 50 smaller local governments fighting with each other.

So yeah, it’s a little easier for top-down decisions on policy.

Well, it’s just a little more challenging when your country is also half of a fucking continent. What works for one small geopolitical area cannot necessarily be applied to the rest of the continent.

Especially when the country is essentially made up of 50 smaller countries that all want different things and have different demographics and climates and environments.

And yes, Americans typically take the more convenient option and the whole focus of their fucking culture in recent history. American culture has essentially become if you can afford it you get more convenience. Just a different culture than what is in Europe and the rest of the world.

Years of accumulating debt, competition from larger chains like CVS and Walgreens, and costly opioid lawsuits had pushed Rite Aid to the brink.

https://tinygrab.com/who-bought-rite-aid-in-2025/

Yes they had debt before, that’s why they went bankrupt in the first place. Now they are going bankrupt because private equity decided to buy the business and sell off what they don’t want.

Norway is a much smaller country and has been preparing for this for decades. It has a much higher renewable electricity footprint, and provides numerous incentives to consumers to buy electric cars. It also seems that the government isn’t trying to constantly monitor and control their population.

When you look at the average distances, subpar charging network, and how much renewable electricity is sourced in the US, you realize that it just doesn’t work for that model.

A lot of electric vehicles just aren’t viable in the rural parts of America. Most electricity comes from petroleum and certainly not renewables.

And the added competition for AI data centers on electrical grids are also going to decentivise people from buying electric cars and paying higher energy prices to charge their car.

The US economy is essentially built on convenience and charging an electric car for hours at a time or overnight is hardly convenient. There is no way that you can make a road trip, as common in the US, without recharging the car along the way and being forced to wait.

Pretty sure the election was stolen and all those swing states anyway. It’s statistically improbable that he won all seven swing states. Not to mention the election tampering, Starlink, etc.

You’re only improving the local environment in the sense that local emissions are lowered. However, You’re just outsourcing the pollution to Third World countries that are doing the mining, refining, etc., without any human right protections, labor, protections, pollution protections, etc.

And you have the benefit of overreaching government regulations and justifying the enshitification of existing ICE cars.

So that consumer sees the following:

1. I can buy a new car that’s more expensive and shittier more difficult and expensive to maintain.

2. Or I can buy a shittier electric version of the car with lower range, higher electric cost, a battery that won’t work in 10 years, no privacy, while degrading the roads and tires faster due to the extra weight.

Tell me how this is a surprising outcome that nobody wants to buy electric cars to save the planet? You get a shittier product you pay more for it and it’s more limiting.

I’m sure they made lots of money selling your personal information to the highest bidding data broker.

There has to be some growth because inflation eats at the value of your capital every year.

How dare they! /s

Set up a pihole on your network and add a few block lists. If your IoT appliances phone home at least you can block the traffic and monitor what things phone home.

As for buying appliances that are not smart, It takes extra effort and a trade-off in features.

For example, my toothbrush has Bluetooth in it. if I want a non-Bluetooth toothbrush I’d have to get a lower quality model because they simply don’t make one without it.

Most people buy whatever’s on sale, And considering how expensive home appliances are they usually put the expensive featured models on sale since there’s a bigger margin.

So if I wanted to get a basic one with less features, that’s not smart it would actually be more expensive because it will never go on sale.

I’m pretty sure there’s a Rite Aid near where I am and it’s almost always closed. The only other option is the CVS that’s in Hannaford. Another 35 minute drive in the opposite direction to Walmart. 45 minute drive in the other direction to a CVS.